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Quick post about those 'latency numbers every programmer must know'. It became mostly an affirmation of @sirupsen.bsky.social 's napkin-math repo (bookmark it).

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

Looking forward to reading @chiphuyen.bsky.social's new book AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models www.oreilly.com/library/view...

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

The first step in my career was learning how to do things, but it took understanding why I was doing them for my career to take off. I went from completing tasks to asking why, then understanding the impact of my work, and eventually gained the ability to find the most impactful things to work on.

submitted 168 days ago • 12 comments

This is the academic writing equivalent of Alec Baldwin's ABC monologue in Glengarry Glen Ross. “Here’s what your writing does. It helps a particular set of readers understand better something they wanna understand well. That’s what its job is.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...

submitted 168 days ago • 3 comments

Published a new blog post: Building a Distributed Log Using S3 (Under 150 Lines of Go) The log is a powerful storage abstraction. Using a log, you can build a database, message queue, or event streaming system. S3 makes it all better and easier! avi.im/blag/2024/s3...

submitted 170 days ago • 3 comments

The ZenML team has compiled over 300 real-world examples of deploying LLMs in production. It might help technical teams tackle practical challenges with a focus on concrete implementation details while avoiding promotional fluff www.zenml.io/blog/demysti... #dataBS

submitted 169 days ago • 2 comments

"The mean of the distribution will not correspond to the sample mean. In fact, there is no fat tailed distribution in which the mean can be properly estimated directly from the sample mean, unless we have orders of magnitude more data than we do". Source: fooledbyrandomness.com/DarwinColleg...

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

The closing of DBDBD 2024 was the "Amsterdam Data Systems" session, with talks from @databricks.bsky.social, @motherduck.com and @clickhouse.com (due to illness, @weaviate.bsky.social could not make it). These companies all have a significant presence in Amsterdam. Videos: bit.ly/cwida-ams-da...

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

How different teams interact....

submitted 171 days ago • 5 comments

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/11/27/t...

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

"Soft skill books that will make you a better developer" open.substack.com/pub/addyo/p/... Takeaways from some favorite books that have helped me grow over time.

submitted 175 days ago • 2 comments

Great initiative/podcast by Dr.Werner Vogels (@werner.social) to share insights from seasoned architects thefrugalarchitect.com

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

www.ben-evans.com/presentations

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

"Which Parsing Approach?" DuckDB's PEG parser post made me go down the rabbit hole and re-read on parsing for a bit. This is a nice overview on different approaches, by @ltratt.bsky.social. tratt.net/laurie/blog/...

submitted 177 days ago • 2 comments

A stellar week for enthusiasts of system design, formal methods, and simulation continues: How we use formal modeling, lightweight simulations, and chaos testing to design distributed systems Lots to read & re-read this weekend ❤️ www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee... bsky.app/profile/domi...

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

Great device for writing, but quality control needs to be improved a little bit. For now returning my remarkable paper pro 🥲 #remarkable #rmpp

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Engineers who can't manage frustration, risk wasting their own and their team's time on non-impactful projects.

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